When Nick was in Afghanistan, he served as a combat medic with the 82nd Airborne.

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Years before he joined the Air Force, Morgan was a combat medic for the 82nd Airborne's 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment.

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Nick Colgin, who served for 15 months in Afghanistan as a combat medic, suffered a traumatic brain injury after a rocket-propelled grenade slammed into his Humvee.

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Or the rumors promised reward: every paratrooper (or combat infantry, or artilleryman, or medic, or whatever) was going to get a free car from Henry Ford when the war was won.

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